Let the room read this point — Outline slides for Sunday
An Outline slide in BibleSlides is the heading and the points you want the room to read. The whole list shows at once until you turn on Reveal points sequentially. Each main point then arrives on its own click, with its indented lines. Separate slides makes each click its own slide in the editor and on the tablet. same slide keeps the clicks on one slide: later points stay quieter on the tablet, and the projector shows only the points you have reached.
You have finished Ephesians 2:8–9. The verse was just on the screen. The sentence you are about to say has a shape: saved by grace, through faith, the gift of God, so that no one may boast. The third row can follow you when those words are on the wall in the order you will say them.
An Outline slide in BibleSlides is that list. You type the heading and the points. The room reads the point you are on. Then you come back to the verse.
The points are a window onto the text. Write them from the sentence you just taught, put them up while you are in that sentence, and leave them when the text is finished.
Verse Analysis already covers the color-coded parts of speech on the verse itself. This slide is the handful of lines in your own words.
What belongs on the screen
| Moment | Slide |
|---|---|
| Read the passage | Bible Verse |
| Show how the sentence is built | Verse Analysis |
| Name the points the room should be able to repeat | Outline |
| Start the next unit from the passage | Teaching starter |
A book study keeps those points in the same document as the notes, so week 14 still matches the text you actually preached.
What you type
In the sidebar the section is SLIDE TYPES. Choose Outline. On a new account it is in that list, after Quote. More slide types opens the full catalog when your list has been shortened. The hover on the row says Press, then the shortcut, which starts as Ctrl+Shift+5 (Cmd+Shift+5 on a Mac).
The window title is Outline. On a computer you type on the preview. The heading placeholder reads Heading. The first line reads Point 1. On a phone the fields are Heading and Points, and the points field says One point per line. Reveal and the step rows sit under Advanced on a phone. On a computer they are in the window with the preview.
The list starts as a Bulleted list. A top-level line uses a filled dot. Increase indent nests the next line under it, with an open dot and a slightly smaller size. One more indent uses a small square. Decrease indent brings the line back out. Numbered list counts the lines. Roman numeral list — the hover reads Roman numerals (IV. A. 1.) — marks a top-level line as I., II., III., the first indent as A., B., and the next indent as 1., 2.
Under the preview, Header and Items set the size of the heading and the points. Alignment places the block left, center, or right. Center is the start. The lines inside the list stay left-aligned. Pin to top moves the heading and the points into the upper part of the slide. Its hover reads: Places the heading and points in the upper part of the slide instead of vertically centering them. With that on, T/B is the top and bottom inset and L/R is the left and right inset.
The whole list, or one main point at a time
Reveal points sequentially is off when you open the slide. The heading and every point are on the screen together. Use that for a closing recap, when the room should see the whole shape while you pray or send them back to the text.
Turn it on when you will name one main point, finish it, then bring in the next. The hover reads: Creates a slide for each top-level point. Nested bullets stay with their parent. An indented line arrives with the point above it. That line waits for the same click.
Where points live appears once the switch is on.
| Choice | What Sunday does |
|---|---|
| Separate slides | Each main point becomes its own slide in the editor and on the tablet. This is where the switch starts. The first slide is the heading with the first point and any lines indented under it. The next slide keeps those lines and adds the next main point. |
| same slide | The points stay on one slide. The line under the control reads: Reveal points here with arrows. No extra slides in the editor or on tablet. |
On same slide, the projector shows the points you have reached. Points still ahead stay off the house screen until you advance. In the editor and on the tablet, those later points remain on the slide in a quieter color, so you can see what is coming while the room sees the point you are teaching.
Ephesians 2:8–9, one click at a time
Heading: Ephesians 2:8–9
- Saved by grace
- Through faith
- Not from yourselves
- It is the gift of God
- Not from works, so that no one may boast
With Reveal points sequentially on, the first click is the heading, Saved by grace, and the two lines under it. The step row reads 1: Saved by grace. The next click keeps that and adds It is the gift of God (2: It is the gift of God). The last click adds the line about boasting.
Leave Separate slides when each of those is its own moment in the notes and on the tablet. Choose same slide when you want a single slide and the arrows.
Then return to the Bible Verse slide.
Saturday
- Stay in the passage. Insert Outline after the verse you will explain, or at the end when this list is the recap.
- Type the heading and the points in the words you will actually say. Nest a supporting line with Increase indent.
- Leave Reveal points sequentially off when the room should see the whole list.
- Turn it on to bring in one main point per click. Under Where points live, Separate slides puts each click in the editor and on the tablet. same slide keeps one slide.
- When the list is long for the frame, turn on Pin to top.
- Advance the clicks once in the editor, then the same order on the tablet. On same slide, the projector shows the points you have reached, and the tablet keeps the later lines quieter.
FAQ
What does the first click show?
The heading and the first main point together, including any lines indented under that point.
Do indented lines get their own click?
They stay with the main point above them. Increase indent nests a line. Reveal points sequentially advances by the top-level point.
Add step copied a point. What happened?
With Reveal points sequentially on and Where points live set to Separate slides, Add step copies the point you have selected and places the copy after it. A new point is a line you type on the preview. On a phone, type it in Points.
Add step left the words unchanged. What happened?
With same slide, Add step adds another click that keeps the same points, so a mark can arrive on its own advance. With Reveal points sequentially off, Add step also leaves the list as you typed it and adds a frame for a mark on that list. The first time, BibleSlides sets those frames to same slide. Where steps live then offers Separate slides or same slide for the frames.
Who advances the points?
You do. An Outline slide has no timer.
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